The Singing Hill (1941)

Directed by

Lew Landers

Genre

Western film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 15m

Rated

G

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A singing cowboy works as a foreman on a ranch. The ranch may be sold to a shady banker by the young heiress who does not know the sale would ruin local ranchers. The cowboy tries to stop the sale and protect the grazing land.

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What happens

The Singing Hill is a 1941 American Western film directed by Lew Landers and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and Virginia Dale. Based on a story by Jesse Lasky Jr. and Richard Murphy, the film is about a singing cowboy and foreman of a ranch that may be sold to an unscrupulous banker by the young madcap heiress who is unaware that the sale will result in the local ranchers losing their free grazing land and their ranches. In the film, Autry performed the 1940 song "Blueberry Hill", first recorded by Sammy Kaye, which would become a standard recorded by such artists as Louis Armstrong (1949), Fats Domino (1956), and Elvis Presley (1957). The song became one of Autry's best-selling recordings. In 1987, "Blueberry Hill" received an ASCAP Award for Most Performed Feature Film Standards on TV. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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